Scrum Master
Job Purpose
The Scrum Master manages the Agile practice execution, ensuring it is understood and enacted. The primary goal of the Scrum Master is to assist the team in meeting delivery goals and operate as a leader who helps team to self-organize, self-manage and deliver via effective Agile practice. The scrum master shall be the facilitator for the agile team working under the scrum methodology. Shall be responsible for delegating tasks appropriately and ensuring the team is working on the right tasks at the right time. Working together with Technology relation team and product owners to ensure a healthy product portfolio and to translate epics, stories, and other items on the sprint list into actionable tasks for development organization.
Main Responsibilities
Ownership and accountability of establishing agile values, methods, principles and practices and their application for the delivery of projects and business initiatives and acts as an evangelist for adoption agile methodology within the enterprise.
Ensures that the Scrum Team is provided with an environment conducive for project delivery while facilitating discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution and helps to remove any impediments to the project delivery.
The Scrum Master guides, facilitates, coaches, mentor and teaches agile standards and Scrum practices (e.g. Lean, Kanban, Scrum, XP, DevOps, SAFe, LeSS etc) to the scrum, project teams and the whole development organization;
Organizes and facilitates and leading scrum ceremonies (sprint planning meeting, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospects etc), events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
Collaborates closely with Product Owners and Technology Relationship Management teams to prepare and clarify the Prioritized Product Backlog and the Definition of the Done Criteria and facilitates Prioritized Product Backlog Reviews with the product owner.
Facilitates identification of the stakeholders and manages the stakeholders and vendors as required for business projects or initiatives
Responsible for creating release plans including deliverables and the release deadline, plans and estimates the highest value deliverables for the next release
Demonstrate and Validate Sprints by facilitating presentation of completed Deliverables by the Scrum Team for the Product Owner’s approval
Supports the Scrum Team in determining the length of sprint, creating the deliverables, identification of tasks and effort estimation for the tasks agreed for a sprint.
Monitoring progress and performance of the scrum teams and keeping the organization up to date on the progress of the scrum team’s projects & initiatives by preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders.
Daily Responsibilities:
Helping the Scrum teams agree on what they can achieve during each development sprint (or other period of time).
Helping the team continuously make progress on the projects by making sure each person is working on the right tasks, helping to remove any obstacles to the team members’ progress, and protecting the team from distractions.
Working with the product owners to maintain a healthy product backlog.
Facilitating scrum ceremonies (daily standups, sprint planning, retrospect etc) as needed.
Working with Technology Relationship management to interface with the product managers so as to prioritize and ensure continuous flow of delivery to meet business needs.
Educational qualifications and work experience:
Bachelor’s degree in any IT- related field
Professional Qualifications in Scrum Master certification.
3 Years of minimum experience in administering Burndown technologies, Retrospective formats, and handling bugs, experience working with Agile and Scrum methodology in successful projects, an understanding of the rules and practices of other Agile approaches. This includes the differences between Scrum and Kanban and how they may be blended for optimum results.
